Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Fundraising Brunch

In-Person Table Sponsorship

Errol Black Chair Fundraising Brunch 2023
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
The Fairmont Hotel, Grand Ballroom
10am

Honoured guest: Leslie Spillett

Currently Leslie works with Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing,
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and supports Indigenous students, faculty and staff
within the five faculties of health and Ka Ni Kanichihk’s Mino Pimatisiwin Sexual Health
Healing Lodge. She serves on the board/council of the Manitoba Harm Reduction
Network, National Consortium for Indigenous Medical Education, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls 2SLGBTQQIA+ Urban Implementation Advisory Committee, Iskwewak Awetowak Nipocawin: Indigenous Women Leading Knowledge and CAAN.

Keynote speaker, Niigaan Sinclair

Niigaan Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter’s/Little Peguis) and a professor at the University of Manitoba, where he holds the Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics in the Department of Indigenous Studies. Niigaan is also an award-winning writer, editor and activist who was recently named to the “Power List” by Maclean’smagazine as one of the most influential individuals in Canada. In 2018, he won Canadian columnist of the year at the National Newspaper Awards for his bi-weekly columns in The Winnipeg Free Press and is a featured member of the Friday "Power Panel" on CBC's Power & Politics. A former secondary school teacher, he won the 2019 Peace Educator of the Year from the Peace and Justice Studies Association based at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

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